Livin it One Day at A Time

Still very nervous about Michael Bay (aka the KING of in Movie advertising, creator of “The Island”) making this film..

I was waiting for a “Autobots, transform and roll out”.

This is killing me… I want to get myself one of these belt buckles

I mean, really, would that look good on a belt?

WHO has a golden ticket! Me! That’s who!

Over the last few years, I’ve saved my Paid Days Off (aka vacation) much like a squirel hides away his nuts for the winter. I then, go all out, and spend about two weeks with my Family in Utah.

The end result? Well, my parents now have three pinball machines in their basement, with two non functioning video games.

Apparently, I know how to work the system.

Guess what? I do believe I’m taking two more (a Johnny Mnemonic and a White Water). To their house. I will then proceed to work on the games, or at least act like I am working on them while I proceed to break them even more. See, I’m good like that.

But here’s the downside, when I go for two weeks, I tend to pack, and I don’t mean the sissy sort of packing, I’m talking all the clothes, all the pinball restoration stuff, multiple laptops, camera, tripod for camera, swiming trunks in the case that I decide to go swiming, and I’ve been known to take racquetball stuff as well. You see.. Apparently I’m crazy. It used to be that I had a big rubbermaid tub that I would take with me on vacation. My family dubbed it “The Tub of vacation”. Well, in a few more days, I’ll be heading to the families house in my “Truck of vacation”, which, if I’m lucky, I’ll only have filled to over flowing with stuff like my belt buckle collection (just in case I need the scary clown one) or my Sushi making kit.

Yeah, I’m a freak like that.

I’ve been asked what I’d like for Christmas, and though I am happy just with peoples company and love (See several posts down.) I’ll go ahead and post some of the stuff I have my eye on, and will probably get anyways.

Alas, most of this shouldn’t be a surprise, because above all things, I’m predictable. (This Means I’m all types of nerd, Cooking Nerd, Photo Nerd, Pinball Nerd, Belt Buck Nerd. The list goes on)

So, without further ado:

Cooking Nerd:

• Alton Brown Salt Cellar
• Bundle of 3 Salt Cellars
• Alton Brown Plunger and Plunger Jr.
• A toaster (yeah, I know, just haven’t needed one
• Any of Alton Browns Books (here. and here. and here)
• Pretty much anything from Kitchen Contraptions (ohhh, shiny)
• A Soft serve Ice cream Maker
• Miso Soup
• These cool Cookie Cutter shapes
• More in the Amazon Wishlist

Photo Nerd:

• Lenses, Memory cards, bigger bag, books on photography, a cool electronic picture frame.
• I’m really lost for finding stuff online for this one. Maybe a reflector?
• Some stuff in the Amazon.com wishlist

Pinball Stuff:

• One of the Pin Mats for a game I own.
• A pinresptore.com Gift Certificate
• A Bayareaamusement.com gift Certificate here or here
• Or tools that would go with it (like headlamps, or magnetic part bowls, etc)
• Or Parts from Pinbits or Pinball Life
• Iwata Airbrush
• Pocket Programmer II

Home Theater Nerd:

• Costco Popcorn Machine

Belt Buckles & Watches (new obsession):

• Can’t go wrong if it’s Arcade or Sci-fi related. I do most of my shoppin on e-pay

Misc Nerd Stuff:

• Home Made Slankets
• a KILT!
• PocketDish
• Go Cart

Take a look at my ThinkGeek Wishlist ( you can find cheaper stuff if you look for it, instead of getting it from thinkgeek.

or you can take a look at

Or you can update my subscription to Make

And most of all, just give me a hug.

And Julie, I can’t wait for your peanut brittle. Oh, and declaring me pinball champion of the universe.

I’ve been sitting in bed, workin on the laptop, churning through e-mail, and guess what?

Fixing some links.

So you’ll notice, some people went away, some stayed, and you’ll see some additional links.

Cuz getting stuff dune(tm) is what I’m all about.

As I slowly make my way back into blogging, I thought I’d gift ya’ll with another nice little video clip

So here I present, Scary Mary

As I was perusing some of the pinball related blogs I read, I found This guys arcade.

All I can say is that I’m speechless…

And that I need a house something bad nowdays

I mean, there are only so many games I can leave every time I go to Utah